The earliest
known information on the Kamenny Brod Jewish
community dates from 1850s. But actually, the
Sussmans' faience factory operated here since
1862, and from this moment Kamenny Brod might be
considered founded as a settlement.
Three synagogues
operated here for decades (including one, at
the factory's territory, which was closed,
to be transferred to the local club, in
1928). Local Jews were adherents of the
Chernobyl chassidim. A.-F. Zusman, the owner
of the faience factory, also lived in
Berdichev, not far from the Tsadik's
residence.

In 1919, there was a horrible pogrom
in Kamenny Brod, which took the lives of
more than 200 Jewish men, including the
local rabbi Shmuel Shvartzstein. The
Jewish cemetery was founded here after the
pogrom as the burial place for its
victims. Later this cemetery was used as
the burial place for the Jews from the
neighboring village of Dovbysch. Up to
nowadays, the majority of gravestones have
been destroyed, and inscriptions have
become unreadable. The cemetery has been
divided into two parts: for males and for
females. Until 1917, the local Bund's
branch operated here. N. A. Kiselgof, the
head of a small local hospital, was one of
the outstanding personalities of this
shtetl. He was the main organizer of the
working-class movement in the Kamenny
Brod. He was known in the workers' circle
under a pseudonym “Naumov.”

To view the dedication of the
Ukraine Memorial at Kamennyy, please
click on the picture below:

Memorial built 200 meters from the mass
murder of the Jews. It was opened in 2013. If you go
to the thick forest from the road you'll be able to
see the fence and an old memorial stone inside that
fence. The memorial is destroyed a little and
forgotten. The inscription on the picture of memorial
is in Ukrainian.

"People stop. Here (in 200 meters) is the place of
mass shooting of Jews by the Nazis during the war.
Pray"

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